Sherwood Taylor

Sherwood-Taylor, Alchemists (1976), 61, 78. The concept of solidified pneuma seems to originate in the Emerald Table which may date from the second to third century AD, hut is known only in early Arabic texts, not in Greek. 

This is merely the beginning of far more torments that make for very heavy reading. Sherwood-Taylor comments ... 

Mircea Eliade, Forgerons et AlcMmistes (Paris Editions Flammarion, 1977). Sherwood-Taylor, Alchemists (1976), 57-60 quote from p. 57. 

Sherwood-Taylor, Francis, The Alchemists (St. Albans Paladin, 1976). 

Stephanos of Alexandria. The alchemical works of Stephanos of Alexandria translation and commentary by F. Sherwood Taylor. Ambix 1, no. 2 (Dec 1937) 116-139. Parallel Greek and English texts. Ibid2 (1) Jun 1938, 38-49... 

Ferguson, John.Bibliotheca chemica. Volume I foreword by F. Sherwood Taylor. Glasgow Maclehose, 1906 reprint, London Holland Press, 1954. [2], xxi, 487p. 

Simcock, A.V. Alchemy and the world of science an intellectual biography of Frank Sherwood Taylor... 

F. Sherwood Taylor. A History of Industrial Chemistry. London Heinemann, 1957. 

For the specifically alchemical employment of the orgasm-as-death motif, we may turn to a modern student of hermetic science, F. Sherwood Taylor, who notes that... 

D. Geoghegan, "License of Henry VI to Practise Alchemy," Ambix 6 (1957] 10-17 Ogrinc, "Western Society and Alchemy," 119-20 F. Sherwood Taylor, The Alchemists, Founders of Modem Chemistry (New York H. Schuman, 1949], 123-44. 

However, when more pnrity is desired, the route is to heat pure iron with dilute sulfuric acid to yield ferrous sulfate and evolve hydrogen. (The evolved hydrogen can in tnm be nsed to rednce ferric oxide back to ferrous oxide, which reacts with sulfuric acid to form ferrous sulfate.) All this and more is set forth in the multivolume Encyclopedia of Chemical Reactions. Other details are furnished, for instance, in F. Sherwood Taylor s classic Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry (1939) and J.W. Mellor s A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry (1922-1937). 

F. Sherwood Taylor, The Alchemists, Frogmore, St Albans, Herts, 1976. 

R Sherwood Taylor, A history of industrial chemistry [19571 (New York, 1972), 428-434. 

Concerning the pharmacological use of the aqua ardens see Palmer (cit. above n. 11) and bibliography cited by him, p. 115 F. Sherwood Taylor, The Idea of the Quintessence in Science, Medicine and History, Charles Singer Presentation Volume, ed. E.A. Underwood (Oxford, 1953), pp. 241-65 R. Halleux, Les ouvrages alchimiques (cit. above n. 5), pp. 246-50 C.A. Wilson, Philosophers, losis and Water of Life , Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society (Literary and Historical Section), 19 (1984), pp. 86-93. 

Figs. 1 and 2 are reproduced, by kind permission, from Professor Niels Bjerrum s Inorganic Chemistry (translated by R. P. Bell), and Fig. 3 is from Dr. Sherwood Taylor s Organic Chemistry, both of which works wiU be found very helpful in the approach to biochemistry. 

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